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<h3> About </h3>

<h4> Description </h4>
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Seed (Simple Exploration of Ecological Datasets) is a tool for visualizing ecological datasets. It provides a simple graphical interface for generating plots and figures. Seed includes tools that enable users to easily link sample metadata to abundance measurements.
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<h4> Disclaimer </h4>
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Seed is currently under development and may include errors in both plots and analyses. Any results provided by Seed should be used with caution.
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<h4> Availability </h4>
<p>The source code and install instructions for Seed are available at <a href="https://github.com/danlbek/Seed">https://github.com/danlbek/Seed</a>.
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<h4> Contact </h4>
<p>Questions, suggestions, and bug reports are welcome and appreciated. Please contact Daniel Beck at danlbek@gmail.com or Christopher Dennis at christozoan@gmail.com.</p>

<h4> Citations </h4>
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Seed is written in R using the Shiny framework. Additionally, Seed relies heavily on a large number of R packages. In each help section you can find a list of important functions used to generate plots, as well as citation information for the packages.
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<h5>Citation for R</h5>
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R Core Team (2014). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. <a href="http://www.R-project.org/">http://www.R-project.org/</a>.
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<h5>Citation for Shiny</h5>

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RStudio Inc. (2014). shiny: Easy web applications in R <a href="http://shiny.rstudio.com/">http://shiny.rstudio.com/</a>.
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<h5>Citation for demonstration dataset </h5>
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Ravel J, Gajer P, Abdo Z, Schneider GM, Koenig SS, McCulle SL, Karlebach S, Gorle R, Russell J, Tacket CO, Brotman RM, Davis CC, Ault K, Peralta L, and Forney LJ (2011). Vaginal microbiome of reproductive-age women. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108 (Supplement 1), 4680–4687.
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